Father & son jailed for attacking ambulance driver

A PAIR of father and son were jailed on Tuesday for assaulting a nurse director who had parked his ambulance in front of the latter's car in an open carpark. Ching Thiam Foo, 49, a driver, was given six months' jail for punching the face and kicking the groin of Mr Sivachandran Murugasu, 28, at Block 212 Bukit Batok Street 21 on Feb 20, 2010. His son, sales executive Jesmond Ching Kah Wei, 25, was jailed four months for punching Mr Sivachandran's face. Both pleaded guilty in February. The court heard that the victim had parked the private ambulance in front of Jesmond's car to send a patient to the clinic for dialysis. When Jesmond wanted to drive out and found his car blocked, he sounded the horn repeatedly. His father came down and went to the clinic to look for the driver, but was told that the vehicle did not belong to the clinic. When Mr Sivachandran returned to the a...